Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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